More Quotes by Viktor Frankl
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
